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Malva sylvestris Cheeseweed, Behbahan, Iran. Malva is a genus of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae.It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow.
Malvaceae (/ m æ l ˈ v eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. [4] [5] Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao, roselle and durian.
The leaves, flowers and the root of A. officinalis (marshmallow) have been used in traditional herbal medicine. This use is reflected in the name of the genus, which comes from the Greek ἀλθαίνειν (althainein), meaning "to heal". [4] [11] [12] The Latin specific epithet officinalis indicates plants with some culinary or medicinal ...
Hibiscus [2] [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.
Malva neglecta is a species of plant of the family Malvaceae, native to most of the Old World except sub-Saharan Africa.It is an annual growing to 0.6 m (2 ft). It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow. [2]
Sphaeralcea is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family . There are about 40-60 species, including annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Most originate in the drier regions of North America, with some known from South America. They are commonly known as globemallows, globe mallows, false mallows or falsemallows.
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva, of which it the type species.Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, [3] it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow (mauve des bois by the French) [4] as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world.
Iliamna is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, endemic to North America.It is related to the bush mallows of California (Malacothamnus) and to Phymosia of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.